Democrats courting Catholics

[Republican_Legion]

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Democrats courting Catholics

Va. governor seen as standard-bearer

By Rick Klein, Globe Staff | January 31, 2006
President Bush's State of the Union address will be broadcast at 9 tonight.

WASHINGTON -- The Democratic Party's intensifying efforts to reach out to Catholic voters will hit a high-water mark tonight, when party leaders turn to Virginia's newly installed governor to deliver the response to President Bush's State of the Union address.
Governor Timothy M. Kaine, a devout Catholic who spoke openly about his faith during his election campaign last year, will speak about his work as a Jesuit missionary in Honduras, said Delacey Skinner, a Kaine spokeswoman. Kaine said that experience during his time as a Harvard Law School student inspired him to enter public service.
''Faith is a good guidepost for how you evaluate the world, but it also should be a good guidepost for how you act," Skinner said. ''That's really what his faith teaches -- that the real focus should be doing the work of faith that helps others."
Kaine's address from the governor's mansion in Richmond, a departure from the usual practice of Democratic congressional leaders responding to the president's speech from Capitol Hill, is part of the party's strategy to bring a once-reliable constituency back to their side.
After Democratic Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts -- the party's first Catholic nominee since John F. Kennedy in 1960 -- lost the Catholic vote to Bush, a Methodist, in the last presidential election, national Democrats want to recast the party's image. They say their positions on key issues like the Iraq war, immigration, the environment, and poverty are in synch with church teachings.
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Planned parenthood doesnt reduce abortions.
Catholics arent gonna fall for the Bullshitz crap like that.
Kaine is a devout Sinner because he LOVES ABORTION !
Virginian voters are F-ing stupid.

[DoctorDoom]

"Catholics" like Kerry and Kennedy might swallow that guff, but anyone who has seen the RATs in action over the last several years won't buy that crap from the hypocrites.

[Pendragon_6]

Here's one Catholic family who will never vote the Jackass's back into power. Not local, not state, not national elections, none.

[Republican_Legion]

They say their positions on key issues like the Iraq war, immigration, the environment, and poverty are in synch with church teachings

Abortion regards human life which makes it a bigger issue then poverty.
And socialism has never solved poverty, it is poverty!
Voting for Pro-Abortion Liberals is sin so I cant see how the rats can change their image unless they be like Byrd(D-WV) and Nelson(D-NE).

My first time voting in 2004 I voted as a catholic and voted for GWB and not that Incompentent dirtbag that calls himself a catholic. My dad who converted to catholism in the 90's also voted GOP along with me.

In my opinion Bush is more of a Catholic and kerry is a atheist.

[Riverboat]

Abortion regards human life which makes it a bigger issue then poverty..Or, as Mother Teresa put it,

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

[Beowulf]

*raises hand*
Another Catholic who will not succumb to the Democratic Party.

[Maggie_T]

Here's one Catholic family who will never vote the Jackass's back into power. Not local, not state, not national elections, none.

Count me as another one. :flame:

It absolutely infuriates me when when I read titles (and the following articles) like the one on this thread. :hissyfit:

And it infuriates me even more to see that there are some (self-denominated) Catholics who fall for the tripe demonrats sell them.

Well, I refuse to buy their crap. And I'm glad to say, I'm not the only one.

[Maggie_T]

They say their positions on key issues like the Iraq war, immigration, the environment, and poverty are in synch with church teachings.

BULL****!!!!!!!!!!

Poverty, maybe. And we all know that democrats only fight to keep people poor (a.k.a. government-dependant). And I never read anything in the Bible that said a word about the fu*** environment. On the contrary. If I remember correctly, Genesis says:

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let him have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. (Genesis, Chapter One, 1:26)

I bet anything you want that that's NOT what the bloody eco-nazis have in mind when they bleat about the environment.

No, as usual, the moronic left has it backwards. The real issues are abortion and homosexual marriage. And neither of those are "in synch with the church."

Nice try, f***** morons. But you've got it way, WAY wrong.

[DoctorDoom]

The Magster is back and she's BAAAAD! :evilgrin:

[Maggie_T]

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Hi, sweetie. Nice to be back ... and bad. ;)

[Republican_Legion]

Living in Blue states makes us that way.:grin:

[Melz]

Catholics are turning towards Replublican and conservative voting despite their tendencies towards the democrat ticket in years past. My family is true indication of that. I have always been a conservative Catholic, but until last election, we differed on political parties.

Good to know that the left has gone completely out of bounds, so much that they have alienated much of the Catholic Church. Whether folks believe that one party helps the poor more than the other, they realize that the help of both is necessary and continuous.

The Catholics I know have switched because of the effed up immoral views of the far left which seem to hold true for the ENTIRE left. No one on that side speaks out against abortion, cloning, homo marriage...etc...long list of "no-no's" as far as Catholics go.

Somehow this moral delima has led a lot of them to turn conservative, once they got over that whole " Conservatives are rich and don't help the poor" rumor :)

[Republican_Legion]

Democratic party and American Catholics have been allied for hundreds of years and it has now ended. They became democrats long ago because of intolerance of the 'puritans' but now as christians they stand together against immorality and the need to be democrats has disappeared in the minds of most catholics as they now realize the republican party is the prefered choice of the vatican.

[Melz]

Democratic party and American Catholics have been allied for hundreds of years and it has now ended. They became democrats long ago because of intolerance of the 'puritans' but now as christians they stand together against immorality and the need to be democrats has disappeared in the minds of most catholics as they now realize the republican party is the prefered choice of the vatican.

You are right RL. Some of the most devout Catholics that I know have spoken positively in reference the word "conservative' lately. I don't even remember that happening ever.

Things have changed, and those who are diligent in their religion and lessons based on it are changing in a concerted effort to put those in power who share moral views similiar to their own.

It's about time :)

[Republican_Legion]

I didnt know you, beo and pendrag were catholics also:grin: . I thought it was only me, rink, riverboat and maggie.

I'm more of the Evangelical type of Catholic who puts the bible first and church second.

[Patriot Heart]

I dressed up as a nun when I was a little girl, does that count? :grin: I was raised Presbyterian, but there was a program on TV that to my memory had a Catholic mass (early 60's). I was quite impressed with the nuns, and wanted a towel to wear on my head so I could "be" one. My folks called me "Sister Mary Julie".

[Lazarus]

Democrats courting CatholicsSomebody better tell em to not let their daughters go on dates with Teddy...
:whistle: